The Official Bash/Question/Make fun of Democrats/Government/Obama Thread

[revefsreleets]

The debt is coming one way or another. But we can face it one of two ways: With a healthy corporate tax structure taxing US corporations at a fair rate with lots of US jobs retained, or with an ever shrinking base of US business that has fled overseas to avoid unfair taxes.

Obama needs to decide if it's better to tax a few businesses a ton, or a lot of businesses fairly.

Will there be abuses? Surely. But, again, I'd rather have the inevitable small percentage of abuse by a HUGE base of US corporations than a small percentage of abuse by a few remaining US corporations that stuck it out under a grossly unfair tax burden.

[Dino 6 Rings]

Kiss the Butts of the Islamics and then, PissOff the Germans! Our new Foreign Policy from the Amateurs in charge.

Rift With Germany Is Next on Diplomatic Agenda

DRESDEN, Germany — After mending fences with the Muslim world in Cairo on Thursday, President Obama might want to keep his diplomatic tools handy for his stopover here, to repair his increasingly strained relationship with Chancellor Angela Merkel.

A rift has quietly opened up between Germany and the United States, marked by official statements of harmony and private grumbling. It is not an outright crisis in relations, but there are underlying tensions and disagreements on matters ranging from the global economic crisis to the future of inmates held at Guantánamo Bay.

On a more basic level, there is a sense that the Obama administration is ignoring the needs and counsel of longtime allies. Divided Germany was once at the center not only of the cold war, but of American foreign policy as well, which is no longer the case. Yet the United States can ill afford to alienate Europe’s largest economy and its most important intermediary in the strained relationship with Russia. “They’re not angry, they’re not anti-Obama or anti-American,” said John C. Kornblum, a former United States ambassador to Germany and now a business adviser in Berlin. “But they’re confused by the wave of criticism which has been sent at them by the administration and people close to the administration.

“It’s not that they don’t like him,” he said. “They just feel like things aren’t working, like the levers of government are not being engaged to make issues run smoothly.”

Mr. Obama arrived in Dresden, in the former East Germany, on Thursday night for a visit that will also take him to Buchenwald, the Nazi concentration camp, and the American military hospital in Landstuhl. The German news media have questioned why Mr. Obama was not going to Berlin, suggesting the omission might have been intended as a snub to Mrs. Merkel. Her advisers say it is no such thing and instead praise Mr. Obama’s interest in the former East Germany, where Mrs. Merkel grew up.

While Mr. Obama enjoys tremendous personal popularity among the German people, relations with Mrs. Merkel have been bumpy from the beginning. In Germany much symbolic weight is attached to Mrs. Merkel’s decision not to travel to Washington to meet with Mr. Obama in March, but to talk by video conference instead.

But signs of discord were evident even last summer, when Mrs. Merkel rejected Mr. Obama’s request during the presidential campaign to speak in front of the Brandenburg Gate, saying it was not an appropriate location for a candidate’s address. Mr. Obama drew more than 200,000 people to hear his speech at a nearby monument.

http://www.gainesville.com/article/2...lomatic-Agenda

[revefsreleets]

I actually like what he's doing in the Mideast. He's got a muslim name, so why not use it to the US' advantage? If he can reach some kind of understanding with those savages, more power to him.

[St33lersguy]

Obama should take classes on american history because he knows nothing about it. On that speech will he just quit it with bashing america? Really, what kind of leader stresses that his own country is a torture nation? Letting Iran do whatever they want? He will allow them to blow up america. Why did he even run for president because Osama bin Laden told him to? If you voted for this tyrant you voted for someone who doesn't care about REAL AMERICANS hardworking american who belong in this country. He only cares about those barbaric muslim huns who want to kill america.

[Hammer67]

I liked his speech, minus the continued "torture" references. But, I understand his approach. These minor olive branches can't hurt the US anymore then the Iraq war has...

[theplatypus]

Originally Posted by St33lersguy

Obama should take classes on american history because he knows nothing about it. On that speech will he just quit it with bashing america? Really, what kind of leader stresses that his own country is a torture nation? Letting Iraq do whatever they want? He will allow them to blow up america. Why did he even run for president because Osama bin Laden told him to? If you voted for this tyrant you voted for someone who doesn't care about REAL AMERICANS hardworking american who belong in this country. He only cares about those barbaric muslim huns who want to kill america.

lmao

[revefsreleets]

He actually said some of the right things in Germany...especially about people who deny the holocaust. That means, YOU Ahmadinejad!

[KeiselPower99]

Just in case anyone cares....The Stimulis is kicking in this week. 600,000 jobs for the 1.6 million that have been laid off since Febuary.

[MACH1]

Originally Posted by KeiselPower99

Just in case anyone cares....The Stimulis is kicking in this week. 600,000 jobs for the 1.6 million that have been laid off since Febuary.

All new government jobs.

[BIGBENFASTWILLIE]

So far so good... Obama.... grade= A